episode_0091

“… Wait a minute.”

After roughly wrapping up the headache-inducing tasks, finishing the unpleasant meal where my mother’s nagging was served as a side dish, and idly killing time, at the moment I laid my head on the bed to go to sleep.

“What about Emily’s dress?”

I realized a little late that Emily needed a dress to wear.

My slightly dazed mind snaps awake.

Until now, the goal was to be as inconspicuous as possible, so I dressed plainly, but that’s not the case anymore.

The other servants are either butlers or maids, so they’ll be wearing fancy dresses, but it would be a bit much if only Emily was in her maid uniform.

I should at least show her off to the point where she doesn’t feel inferior to others, even if it’s not her most beautiful appearance.

“Ugh…”

The problem is, time is too short.

She needs to be able to wear it by Tuesday.

It’s Thursday night now, so there are five days, well, four days since I have to give it to her on Tuesday.

Hmm… if things go wrong, I might be able to ask Adelheid…

If I bow my head deeply and ask her to save me just once, she’ll be happy to do it.

“Tsk…”

First, I got up from my seat.

If there’s not enough time, I need to move my hands before thinking.

I need to first think of clothes that might work, and then judge whether they’re possible or not.

I sat at my desk, lit a candle, and spread out the paper.

First of all, before drawing any lines, I set a few major premises.

The most important thing is to save time.

It’s hard to reduce the time spent drawing, so it’s important to reduce the time spent making the clothes.

To give a few tips on how to make clothes faster, reduce sewing, reduce connecting parts, and eliminate curves.

For example, it’s faster to make arm warmers and a sleeveless shirt than a long-sleeved T-shirt.

Naturally, because you don’t have to connect the shoulder part.

Loose-fitting clothes come out faster than clothes that cling to the body because you don’t have to worry about measurements.

And if there are no bends or curves in the clothes, it’s naturally easier to make.

The epitome of clothes with extremely eliminated bends and curves is the kimono.

So much so that the fabric used to make kimonos is hardly ever cut in curves.

Cut it long and square, then sew it together, and you’re done.

Therefore, the silhouette of the finished product also has many straight lines and a rough appearance.

Personally, I don’t really like it.

Clothes should have curves, but that almost completely kills the curves.

It’s overwhelmingly good at making people modest, but if I’m going to wear clothes that don’t show my legs, don’t show my waist, and don’t show my arms properly, I’d rather have a corset, at least that has graceful curves if it’s not too tight.

Clothes that come out in one piece from the beginning are hopeless.

It’s a garment that I don’t like in many ways.

“Hmm…”

I wasted time because of random thoughts.

I need to reduce things like this to reduce the number of all-nighters.

It’s not easy.

Anyway, I got sidetracked a lot while thinking about this and that, but to make clothes quickly, you need to use those three major premises appropriately.

Now that I’ve set the major premises, it’s time to draw the silhouette while utilizing the three conditions of reducing sewing, curves, and connecting parts.

The first part to kill when eliminating connecting parts and curves is the shoulder.

A deadly right-angle drift, complex sewing lines and shapes caused by the variable called the neck, and on top of that, there are many movements, so you have to consider the extra space when moving during production.

It’s a really annoying part.

But what if there are no shoulders?

The annoying parts are greatly reduced.

This type of clothing is called an off-shoulder dress, which is a dress that has the collar and shoulders removed from the top.

In this case, the shoulders are completely removed, but the sleeves are sometimes left, and sometimes they are removed, so it’s a slightly different feeling from a sleeveless or tube top.

However, personally, I feel like it’s empty if there’s nothing on the shoulders, so I’ll add decorative shoulder straps and ribbons.

Oh… then it’s not strictly an off-shoulder.

Let’s just think of it as bra straps showing and move on.

Sometimes there are off-shoulder dresses with spaghetti straps.

However, at this point, you might notice something strange.

If the shoulder straps are decorative and there are no shoulders, how do you fix the dress?

This is one of the biggest concerns in off-shoulder dresses.

Because if you add this and that to overcome the support, it ends up being more complicated than an ordinary dress.

Therefore, in general, off-shoulder dresses are not made to simplify the clothes.

But this dress is for Emily to wear, and Emily has superior physical features that others don’t have.

That’s her chest.

The moment when the chest, which is a headache when making clothes, is one of the few times when it’s helpful is when making an off-shoulder dress.

Because if you match the circumference of the part that passes under the armpits properly, a structure is completed that cannot slide down due to the chest.

If the clothes slide down? Then the clothes are ruined, so that’s something that shouldn’t happen in the first place.

The problem of fastening the clothes when putting them on and taking them off can now be easily solved by using hooks instead of strings.

If you’ve solved the shoulders, the next is the sleeves.

Removing the sleeves is also an option, but I think it looks prettier and more innocent to leave the sleeves on, so I’m not going to remove them.

However, sleeves without shoulders are easy to slide down, so to prevent this, the sleeves are slightly connected to the armpits, and the seams are hidden with frills that wrap around the chest, arms, and back.

It would be prettier to make it integral with the torso from the beginning, but that would require more work, so it’s like using a trick.

This has the disadvantage that you can’t make intense movements with your arms, but it’s a dress to look pretty, so you have to put up with that much.

Next is the waist.

The curves that lead from the chest to the waist and hips look pretty, but they’re one of the most terrible parts when making clothes.

Especially since Emily’s body deviates from the standard, the slope around it is so steep that I have to measure the dimensions more precisely and cut the clothes than other people.

Otherwise, one part is always too tight or too loose.

But if you delete the curves and drop straight from the chest to the waist, you don’t have to worry about that.

This appearance was popular with corsets that had a straight waistline like a cone about 100 years ago, but if a noble did it, they would be criticized for being old-fashioned, but Emily is a commoner and a servant.

A world where being a little old-fashioned is actually considered to be more polite.

So, it’s a shame, but I’m going to get rid of it.

If you’ve solved the shoulders, waist, and sleeves like this, the next is the lower body, but unlike the upper body, which requires a lot of touching, there’s not much to touch on the skirt.

Because unless I’m going to create a tight line like Princess Elizabeth’s dress, I can make it the same as the existing dress.

The silhouette of an off-shoulder dress made like this looks like an inverted Erlenmeyer flask for ordinary people.

But because of Emily’s body shape, an unavoidable > < shape will come out.

It was rather good.

This is a silhouette called a chest tent in subculture, and it's a line that makes your heart flutter.

It's a shape that's only allowed for people who have invested very appropriately in the nutrients of their body parts.

It never comes out for people with protruding stomachs or small breasts, so it's a silhouette that only selected people can achieve.

The color is black, the decorations are kept to a minimum to create a contrast with Princess Elizabeth, and it's finished with a shawl to cover the shoulders and a ribbon to tie the ponytail.

"Good…"

Really good.

Off-shoulder is a magical garment that looks pretty without any special decorations for people with beautiful shoulders and upper body.

Coolly exposed shoulders, collarbones, and neckline.

The armpit triangle and upper chest that shyly reveal their appearance among the fiercely assertive areas.

The best clothes are those that can make the most of the physique, no matter how fancy the decorations are.

Emily would look really pretty in it.

I have to make this no matter what.

Whether I stay up all night or bother Adelheid, I have to make it and put it on her.

I can't let our Emily lose confidence among the other maids and butlers.

Nobles and commoners are all dead.

Elizabeth and Emily will dominate this event.

"Hehe~"

I'm happy just imagining it.

_

The happiness born from imagination fueled my creative desire and helped me drive away sleep in the dead of night.

"Haaam…"

But it didn't solve the problem of my body, which fell asleep a little too late after drawing until dawn to make Emily's clothes.

From the moment I woke up, I kept yawning throughout the meal and on the way to work, so Emily, who was watching beside me, narrowed her eyes and glared at me intently.

"Young Master, you keep yawning, what were you secretly doing at night again?"

Perhaps because I've been choosing work over sleep a lot lately, she's become very sensitive, and her voice is very sullen.

"… No, I just tossed and turned because I couldn't sleep."

"If you're going to lie, please hide your expression, please."

"……"

I try to deny it while avoiding Emily's gaze, but it doesn't work at all.

Emily, who put her hand on my cheek and slightly turned my head to the other side, looked at me and said.

"So what did you do at night?"

Her eyes are very intense, perhaps because she's a little angry that I'm not listening and trying to avoid the question.

If it was another matter, I would have told her honestly and asked for forgiveness, but I didn't want to say anything because I wanted to surprise Emily with a gift.

"I didn't do anything, I tell you?"

"Lie, I know you always blink your eyes quickly when you lie, Young Master?"

When I persistently denied it unlike usual, Emily threw out a leading question this time.

Even though I tend to show it easily on my face, I don't have those kinds of habits.

So I shrugged shamelessly and shook my head.

"No? I really didn't do anything, I tell you?"

"Ugh…"

When I didn't fall for it, Emily frowned and groaned as if she was frustrated.

Then, she took her hand off my cheek, pouted her lips, looked ahead, and said.

"If you keep not listening to me like that, I won't wake you up anymore, look for another servant."

"Ah, that's troublesome."

Now I can't imagine having another servant beside me other than Emily.

How many maids whisper in the morning with a warm voice and greet me with a soft smile?

"Emily."

"……"

When I gently grabbed her hand and called Emily's name, Emily slightly turned her head to the other side and hid her expression.

Ah, usually it would have been slightly resolved with this much, but today is a bit difficult.

Still, it was a good thing that I wouldn't get caught even if I lied now that she had turned her head.

So I got a little closer and brought my head close to her ear, which was fully exposed to me.

"Actually, it's because I haven't been able to read much lately, I shouldn't have done that, I'm sorry."

"Eep…"

Emily's shoulders flinched when I whispered softly.

"I was wrong, huh?"

"I don't know."

"Emily, are you really angry?"

"I'm angry, so stop it."

"What can I do to make you feel better?"

"Eek…!"

"Whoa…!"

When I continued to whisper, Emily, with her face flushed red, quickly turned her body and raised her dainty fist to her shoulder.

I flinched slightly, thinking she was going to hit me like that, but Emily glared at me, then lowered her hand and said in a trembling voice.

"… Don't do that again, I'll really get angry then."

"Okay, I won't do it again."

Fortunately, thanks to my sincere apology, Emily's anger quickly subsided.

I can't miss her for the rest of my life, so I have to be careful next time.

"And."

"Huh?"

As I was making up my mind and rejoicing, Emily, with her cheeks slightly puffed out, added in a low voice.

"From now on, you're also forbidden from apologizing in such a cheap way, and also from clinging."

While I was rejoicing, my ultimate moves were banned.

"Ah…"

How am I going to appease Emily now?

I'm in big trouble…